Schedule

Instructors

Prof. Joshua Weitz, Prof. James C. Gumbart, and the members of the 2020 QBioS PhD cohort (Lynn Jin, Ethan Wold, Leo Wood, Disheng Tang, Aradhya Rajanala, Aaron Pfennig, and Tucker Lancester).

Plenary Lecturers:
Prof. Sarah Cobey, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago
Prof. Sam Scarpino, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University

 

All times are given in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

Monday, May 17

8:45 Welcome to the Workshop – Prof. Joshua Weitz, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech & Prof. James C. Gumbart, School of Physics, Georgia Tech
9:00 Plenary Lecture – Modeling COVID-19: what went wrong and right, and what’s next – Prof. Sarah Cobey, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago
10:00 Q&A
10:15 Break
10:30 Track 1: Introduction to programming
  Track 2: Journal club discussion for more advanced programmers
12:00 Lunch Break
13:00 Hands-on Modeling Epidemics I: Deterministic Models
15:00 Wrap-up day 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, May 18

9:00 Lecture: Stochastic Modeling of Epidemics – Prof. Joshua Weitz, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech
10:00 Q&A
10:15 Break
10:30 Hands-on Modeling Epidemics II: Stochastic Models
12:00 Lunch Break
13:00 Translating models into interactive Dashboards – Applied Bioinformatics Laboratory (ABiL)
15:00 Survey (Lottery among all participants)
15:15 Break
15:30 Plenary Lecture – Network Science Theory and COVID-19 – Prof. Sam Scarpino, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University
16:30 Prize announcement of survey lottery
16:45 Closing thoughts
17:00 Workshop closes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We thank the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for making this workshop possible and the Applied Bioinformatics Laboratory (ABiL) for organizing the dashboard session.

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